http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnxVVXzWhto
I love early Soft Cell demo tapes. There was a CD compilation called Science Fiction Stories (Discogs link) that had a collection of these early Soft Cell treats. If you like that super analog, detuned, noisy madness than you will love the new Analogue Systems rs440 delay. Liquid Sky music fans would also get along with this unit too. If your still reading and get what I am talking about AND lust as I do for such sounding things then watch the above video and find $325. Got the cash? Here’s the link: bigcitymusic
“Analogue Systems has just released a brand new module, the rs440 BBD Analogue Delay. This is an awesome sounding delay, utilizing a Panasonic 3011 BBD chip. Analogue Systems has done a great job keeping the price down on this voltage controllable delay. There is some clock noise at longer delay times but the use of a low pass filter after can easily rid you of it. Actually, the clock noise is pretty fun. You can use it as an effect!” – bigcitymusic
For more info: www.analoguesystems.co.uk
This entry was written by , posted on October 28, 2009 at 5:40 am, filed under hardware, sounds and tagged Analogue Systems, delay, modular, rs440. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SbRSHlJVyE
Here’s a video preview of a new software modular synthesizer from Urs Heckmann called Bazille. He’s the Berliner known for the acclaimed Zebra and Filterscape plug-ins. Bazille definitely adds something new sonically to the software landscape. For an example, take a listen at 1:06 to the when he uses an Oscillator on the Filter Resonance. In case you were wondering Bazille is the German word for bacteria.
“This synth combines FM-Synthesis, Phase Distortion and subtractive in a rack-like appearance. Here are some early examples for unusual patches. Note that the sound quality here is really bad, but I guess you catch the drift. No fx used of course, just raw output of the synth.” – UrsHeckmann
A few more videos of Bazille are on the UrsHeckmann YouTube channel: click here
For more info: www.u-he.com
This entry was written by , posted on August 6, 2009 at 1:30 pm, filed under plug-ins, synthesizer and tagged Berlin, modular, plug-in, software, synthesizer, Urs Heckmann. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
Quick Jasuto demonstration from Jasuto on Vimeo.
James Bernard from Propellerhead Software sent me an email yesterday recommending a new iPhone (and VST) application called Jasuto. James said, “It’s like a reactable for Iphone… and it sounds KILLER.. plus if you go to his website he has a vst plug in version which is free. You can thank me later…”. Over at Jasuto.com under the demo videos someone wrote, “Impressive!! This is REALLY the future!!”. I have to say after watching the video above in full futuristic definitely comes to mind. Things go awesome at 1:25 in!
“There are several main design goals that I wanted to achieve with this.
The first goal was to make synth building fun and easy all while adding some unpredictability to the process. I’ve come up with some amazing sounds almost by accident in a lot cases that I would have never even thought of doing in a conventional synth.
The 2nd was to blur the line between patch and synth, so creating a synth should be no different (or any more difficult) than creating a patch.
The 3rd was to unify control and audio rate signals allowing everything to be a modulation or be modulated.
And finally I wanted to make sure that it was simple and efficient to add motion to a sound. So every node on the screen can record its own motion. For instance if you wanted to create a simple LFO for a chorus effect just grab the delays time constant click the record button and wiggle away. After you are done recording hit stop and it will auto-magically blend the loop points for you. All motion including the step sequencer are sync-able via triggers, more on this in the “Basics” section.
And that’s really what this is all about, it lets you explore soundscapes and make synths without even knowing it.”
Needless to say this app is sitting on my iPhone’s home screen and I’ve been glued to it. I’ll make a few videos of my own creations and post them this weekend. More importantly, I already have pieces of audio created with Jasuto I will definitely use in full songs.
For more info: www.jasuto.com
Related post: Six synthPond compositions
This entry was written by , posted on April 15, 2009 at 4:57 am, filed under Uncategorized and tagged iPhone, Jasuto, modular, vst. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
MakeNoise ModDemod from Brandon Daniel on Vimeo.
Here’s a great module from Make Noise Music based on a “military radio communications technology… reclaimed for artistic purposes”. If I were at war I could see that blasting this audio toward the enemy would definitely confuse the hell out of them. I’ve been planning to build my own modular for years and whenever I find a module I know has to be included it goes into a special bookmarked folder. This baby is in!
“Welcome to the dumbest video ever of the ModDemod…” – Brandon Daniel
About $130. More info: www.makenoisemusic.com/moddemod.html
photo credit: bdu
This entry was written by , posted on April 14, 2009 at 5:31 am, filed under synthesizer and tagged Doepfer, Make Noise Music, ModDemod, modular, modular synthesizier, ring modulator. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
First night with the PLL from Peter Speer on Vimeo.
Peter Speer of Colonial Recordings USA shows us his first night with a Doepfer A-196 Phase Locked Loop Module. I enjoyed following the signal path around in this video. I also think these are some of the types of sounds have that slight edge you don’t get with plug-ins.
–Voice of Saturn Sequencer CV Out to Freq CV on Plan B ELF LFO
–ELF LFO Square Out to Trig In on Doepfer A-160 Clock Divider.
–ELF LFO Triangle Out to In 2 on PLL–/64 Out on A-160 is triggering the first channel on the A-143-1 Complex Envelope Generator (all channels set to AD mode)
–Mix Out on A-143-1 to Gate In on A-140 ADSR
–/32 Out on A-160 is retriggering the A-140–Output from A-140 sent to CV In on A-132-3
–Comparator Out on A-196 to Input on 132-3
–Output from A-132-3 to computer
For more info on the Doepfer A-196: click here
Related post: The Voice of Saturn Synthesizer & Sequencer
This entry was written by , posted on March 7, 2009 at 11:40 am, filed under synthesizer and tagged Doepfer, modular, synthesizer, Voice of Saturn. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
The artist known as Stretta aka Matthew Davidson has released a free 3GB sound library. He works with Wendy Carlos and is a regular music contributor to NPR (public radio). He also make a living as a graphic designer.
The sound library was created using his modular synth, a Dave Smith Evolver, Waldorf Microwave and Roland R8 drum machine. The sounds are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 United States License. This means your free to use them in your work as long as you state where the samples came from.
Fragments of the Total Harmonic Distortion sample library have popped up in various places, like the recent OLPC Sample Library Set… This stuff isn’t doing anyone any good sitting on my hard drive. I’d like to make it available to the public. – stretta.blogspot.com
You can download the library from legaltorrents.com. The direct link is:
http://beta.legaltorrents.com/torrents/71
via synthtopia
This entry was written by , posted on April 11, 2008 at 11:20 am, filed under sounds and tagged free, modular, Roland R8, sounds, Waldorf, Wendy Carlos. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
There is a fantastic new Doepfer module expected to be released in May. The A-189 Voltage Controlled Bit Crusher / Modifier makes some serious noise. It has a A/D converter which 
takes your incoming signal and makes it digital. Once in the digital realm it reduces and shuffles the bit order of the incoming sound.
It offers several voltage controlled algorithmic functions like voltage controlled bit crunching, bit shifting (with/without carry over), bit exchange, rectifying, absolute value and calculating operations like addition, subtraction, multiplication or division. – Doepfer.de
Because it’s part of a modular synthesizer system it has various inputs. You can send an LFO or ADSR into the module to effect different parameters. Voltage control over the bit crusher and sampling rate is awesome! Analog control into this digital module is xxxx. The digital module has 16 different modes which all sound different from each other.
Here are two audio samples from the Doepfer.com homepage:
A1891_sampling_rate.mp3
A1891_playing_around_01.mp3
To see a great video of Dieter Doepfer at NAMM 2008 head to Sonic State. The A-189-1 show begins at 4:55: click here
The projected price is 80 euros (no brainer!). For more audio samples click to: www.doepfer.de
photo credit: kedasc
This entry was written by , posted on January 29, 2008 at 12:11 pm, filed under hardware, synthesizer, video and tagged bit crusher, Doepfer, modular. Leave a comment or view the discussion at the permalink and follow any comments with the RSS feed for this post.
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